Blogging for Commentary

This year in my 8th grade U.S history class we will be reading two books. Instead of assigning questions to go along with the reading I am going to have the students do a reading response on Blogger. I will be giving students time in class to create a response to the days reading. Once they are done with their response I will ask them to read a classmates response and to post a response. We will use the commentary to ignite class discussion about the reading.